teem

To be stocked to overflowing.

But well he knew his teeming pangs were vain, Till Midwife Dryden eas’d his labouring Brain;

his mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villainy

To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.

Fish teem in this pond.

The steel works, with their Siemens furnaces, the rail-rolling mill with its enormous single-cylinder engine fitted with Corliss valve gear, and the forge in which were installed the great steam hammers and hydraulic presses—these were teeming with interest, and the best way to pick up information was to work with the millwrights.

To fall prolifically.

"Troth, it's teemin' powerful this instiant up there in the mountains. 'Twill be much if you land home afore it's atop of you; […]"

... rain teemed from the overcast skies, cold and penetrating, and life began to look like one enormous funeral procession.

To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.

If she must teem, / Create her child of spleen.

A downpour (of rain).

... a teem of rain that poured down so copiously it ran in surface streamlets over the plains. I may literally say we came to anchor this evening in a sheet of water, the prairie, as far as we could see, presenting the same aqueous[…]

... under the great teems of rain, and houldin' up the grandest new green umbrella ever you laid eyes on. Fine it was entirely, and an iligant body I was consaitin' meself, goodness forgive me.

To empty.

[The banksman] also puts the full tubs to the weighing machine, and thence to the skreens, upon which he teems the coals. It is also his duty to keep an account of the quantity of coals and stones drawn each day.

“Are you sure they’re good lodgings?” she asked. “Yes—yes. Only—it’s a winder when you have to pour your own tea out—an’ nobody to grouse if you teem it in your saucer and sup it up. It somehow takes a’ the taste out of it.”

To pour (especially with rain)

To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.

To drain the water from (boiled potatoes etc.).